A lot of people from the Isle Of Man settled in Liverpool I have great grandparents who came here in the 1900s. They could speak Manx Gaelic the language was more common than it is today. Manx people's surnames have similar origins to the Irish surnames but with some peculiarities. The Gaelic Mac pre-fixes were dropped off over time but most surnames retain the "K" or "C" or "Q" sound from the "C" of the Mac:-
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnoteb...mes/sn1881.htm
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